Any of us know about Europe, but few things make Europe Mysterious, in these PPT we have tried to cover the mysterious and dreadful things about Europe

1. History and mystery of Europe

2. PrehistoryHomo erectus migrated from Africa to
Europe before the emergence of
modern humans.
The earliest appearance of anatomically modern
people in Europe has been dated to 35,000 BC, usually
referred to as the Cro-Magnon man.

3. Minoans and Mycenae 2700–1100 BC
The first well-known literate civilization in
Europe was that of the Minoans. The Minoan
civilization was a Bronze Age civilization that
arose on the island of Crete and flourished
from approximately the 27th century BC to
the 15th century BC.

4. Bronze Age collapse
Just over half a century, the entire Eastern Mediterranean and Aegean Region
collapsed in a violent and culturally disruptive way. Almost all the cities were
destroyed and the cultural collapse of the Mycenaean kingdoms brought about
the so-called Dark Ages. Historians believe it might have been due to natural
disasters as the area was seismically active or even attribute the fall to nomadic
raiders or climate change.

5. Greek
Ancient Greek Civilization started around 1400BC
and ended around 337BC with the rise of the
Roman empire. The older name for the Greece
was Yunan and its capital was Athens. When the
population of these villages grew, a sense of an
organization started to evolve. They built a
marketplace and a community place which led to
the formation of a government and some sort of
constitution (a set of laws).

6. Mystery during Greek civilization
Antikythera mechanism
The Antikythera mechanism is an ancient analogue computer believed to
have been made by Greek scientists in the 150 or 100 B.C. The computer was
used to predict astronomical positions and even eclipses. It remains a
mystery because the technology was not seen again until the 14th century
when mechanical clocks were being made in Europe. And the mechanism’s
importance wasn’t recognized for 75 years. Planetary motion in the
mechanism was accurate to within one degree in 500 years.

8. The Lost City of Atlantis
The Lost City of Atlantis is one of the oldest
and greatest mysteries of the world. Since
ancient times, people have been trying to
locate Atlantis, which is believed to have
submerged after an earthquake or tsunami.
The Lost City of Atlantis is one of the oldest
and greatest mysteries of the world. Since
ancient times, people have been trying to
locate Atlantis, which is believed to have
submerged after an earthquake or tsunami.
The lost city of Atlantics

9. The Greatest Mysteries Of
Human History: The Bog
Bodies

10. The bog bodies, or bog people, are the naturally preserved
human corpses that were found in the sphagnum bogs in
Northern Europe. Rather than decomposing, the bog
provided the perfect conditions to preserve the bodies,
leaving the skin and internal organs relatively intact.

11. Neolithic Europeis the period
when Neolithic technology was present in
Europe, roughly between 7000 BCE (the
approximate time of the first farming societies
in Greece) and c. 1700 BCE (the beginning of
the Bronze Age in northwest Europe).
The Neolithic overlaps
the Mesolithic and Bronze Age periods
in Europe as cultural changes moved from the
southeast to northwest at about 1 km/year -
this is called Neolithic Expansion.

12. Stonehenge is a massive stone monument located on a chalky plain north
of the modern-day city of Salisbury, England. Research shows that the site
has continuously evolved over a period of about 10,000 years. The
structure that we call "Stonehenge" was built between roughly 5,000 and
4,000 years ago and was one part of a larger sacred landscape that
included a massive stone monument that was 15 times the size of
Stonehenge.

13. Stonehenge is one of the most famous megalithic
monuments in the world. It's also one of the most
mysterious, with its prehistoric concentric rings garnering
plenty of speculation as to why and how they were
constructed.
No one knows why ancient people
built Stonehenge, but it seems to
have been arranged to face the
midsummer sunrise and
midwinter sunset.

14. some archeologists would like to
think Stonehenge had just a singular
purpose, but many of them believe
that it probably had multiple
purposes, because it is designed to
align with multiple events (such as
the lunar cycle).

15. The Witches’ Castle was at the heart of one of
the most brutal and bloody trials in history
With a history that stems all the way back to
the 12th century, it’s no surprise that Moosham
Castle has a past that would send shivers down
any spine.
Popularly known as the Witches’ Castle,
Moosham was home to some of the darkest
moments. Between 1675 and 1690, its spooky
walls were at the heart of the Salzburg Witch
Trials, where those accused of witchcraft were
tried, tortured and condemned. Over the 15
years of trials, more than 130 people were
condemned to death, while countless more
suffered horrific torture, brutality and abuse at
the hands of their captors.
Witches’ Castle

17. Dancing Plague
Frau Troffea, a resident of Strasbourg (then
part of the Holy Roman Empire), suddenly took
to dancing on the street in July 1518. Soon she
was joined by others, all dancing
uncontrollably. Within a month, 400 people
were dancing in the city and many of them
died from exhaustion and heart attacks. The
Dancing Plague of 1518, as it came to be
known, had completely died down by the mid-
17th century. It’s unknown whether it was a
real illness or a social phenomenon of some
kind.

18. Scientists cannot probe beyond four meters
below the surface and we may never know
what lies at the bottom of Kaali Lake.
Surrounding Kaali crater are the remains of an
immense stone wall from the Late Bronze Age,
stronger than any similar structures in the
region and providing clues to the crater’s use
by ancient peoples.
Archaeologists believe it is possible that the
wall served as a stronghold for an ancient cult
settlement. As evidenced by the unusually
large quantity of animal bones and human
body found within the wall’s borders, the Kaali
crater lake was not only a watering place but
also a place of sacrifice.
In mythology Scholars maintain that the
event figured prominently in
regional mythology. It was, and still is,
considered a sacred lake. There is
archaeological evidence that it may well have
been a place of ritual sacrifice. At some point
during the early Iron Age
Kaali Lake

19. SCARIEST PLACES ON EARTH

20. Today that question remains unanswered —
and at this point, it seems unlikely the mystery
will be solved to anyone’s satisfaction. That is,
of course, unless the man who actually
dropped that camera either comes forward
with the full story… or his body is found,
somewhere deep within a hellish maze of
stone and bone.
Today, the Catacombs are a vast, city-
spanning maze sprawling nearly 200
miles, most of it more than 100 feet
below street level… and historians
estimate these tunnels contain the bone
of more than six million dead.

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